Day 12. Inner Search (June 29, Utpal)
2 years ago Nirbhasa ran the Self-Transcendence 3100 mile race for the first time. After 11 days of running he had accumulated 710 miles. Last year was a break year and once again he is running the longest race in the world. This time after 11 days he has 725 miles, which in the peculiar trajectory of race statistics, would indicate a very good improvement.
When I ask Nirbhasa if he feels it is going well he says, “I am taking it one day at a time. I don’t think about the accumulative amount of laps. But I do remember at this stage of the race last time I started going down hill pretty quickly.”
He doesn’t know exactly what happened back then. The files show that he started going well under 60 mile per day up until about the half way point on Day 26. “My body just wasn’t used to it. It started around day 11 or 12. Before that all I had done was a 10 day race. So that could have a lot to do with it.”
“Maybe now I am just doing better at management with things like sleep. I am really trying now to look after myself. To be in bed as soon as possible after this finishes.”
Nirbhasa says he learned a lot from his race experience here in 2015. “But there is still a lot more to discover. You come back with new goals. Things that you could have done better outwardly. Things that you could have done better inwardly to remain in a better frame of mind to actually enjoy the race as an experience.”
“There is no point in being out here for the better part of 2 months if you are not committed to experiencing and enjoying the race fully. Rather than thinking, O God, and just ounting down the days until you have to go.”
